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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
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Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
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